Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky

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Paula-Irene Villa in Bamberg (2016)

Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (* 1968 in Santiago de Chile ) is a German - Argentinian sociologist . She is professor for general sociology and gender studies at the Institute for Sociology of the University of Munich (LMU).

Life

Villa Braslavsky is the older daughter of the chemist Silvia Braslavsky and granddaughter of the Argentine educationalist Berta Perelstein de Braslavsky . Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky was a university assistant and private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Hanover and taught as a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, among others . From 2010 to 2012 she was managing director of the Institute for Sociology at LMU Munich, from 2011 to 2013 an elected member of the council of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) and since April 2013 an elected member of the board of the DGS. Until 2014 she was elected member of the board of the Scientific Society for Gender Studies . She is also active in numerous other academic functions, for example in the general assembly of the German Youth Institute (DJI).

Focus

Her main areas of research and teaching are gender studies , sociological theories (especially Bourdieu , poststructuralism , postmodernism , discourse theory , (social) constructivism , phenomenology ), body sociology , cultural sociology / cultural studies , socialization and subject concepts and mothers / fathers.

The body as a cultural staging and status symbol

Fundamentally, processes of the practical construction of the body are necessary for belonging to one of the two sexes - woman or man. In the social sense, people are not women or men per se, but mainly because they are recognized by others as women or men in everyday activities. When people meet in everyday life, they perceive each other in a specific temporal-spatial location, and that means also as bodies.

Fonts

Books

  • Sexy bodies. A sociological journey through the gender body (= gender & society. Volume 23). Doctoral thesis University of Bochum 1998. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2223-3 .
  • Judith Butler. Campus, Frankfurt / Main et al. 2003, ISBN 3-593-37187-1 (2nd, updated edition as: Judith Butler: An Introduction. Ibid . 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39432-9 ).
  • with Lutz Hieber : Images of Weight: Social Movements, Queer Theory and Art in the USA. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-504-8 .
  • as editor: beautifully normal: manipulations on the body as technologies of the self. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-889-6 .
  • as editor with Barbara Thiessen: Mothers - Fathers: Discourses, Media, Practices (= Forum Women and Gender Studies. Volume 24). Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89691-224-4 .
  • as editor with Julia Reuter: Postcolonial Sociology: Empirical findings, theoretical connections, political articulations (= Postcolonial Studies. Volume 2). Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89942-906-0 .
  • as editor with Stephan Moebius and Barbara Thiessen: Sociology of Birth: Discourses, Practices, Perspectives. Campus, Frankfurt / Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39525-8 .
  • as editor with Zara Pfeiffer, Nadine Sanitter, Julia Jäckel and Ralf Steckert: Banale Fights: Perspectives on Popular Culture and Gender (= Gender & Society. Volume 51). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18213-1 .
  • as editor with Sabine Hark : Anti-Genderism: Sexuality and gender as arenas of current political disputes. Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3144-9 ( reading sample in the Google book search).
  • with Sabine Hark: Differentiate and rule: an essay on the ambivalent entanglements of racism, sexism and feminism in the present. Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3653-6 .

Others

Completed and current research projects

  • “The big Americans? Co-constructions of the national and the natural in the German obesity discourse of the present ”and“ Quantified Self? Fitness, Measurement and Quantified Self-Relationships ”; Sub-projects in the project group: "Nutrition, health and social order in modern times: Germany and the USA", funded by the VW Foundation in the program Key Topics in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; together with Jürgen Martschukat , Maren Möhring , Olaf von dem Knesebeck ; Fall 2015-2018
  • Co-Spokesperson and PI Bavarian Research Association "Gender & Care" - ForGenderCare , funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art; 2015-2019
  • "Gender, Migration and Feminist perspectives - Mexico and Germany", establishment of international cooperation with UAM Xochimilco and Universidad de Colima , Mexico; funded by DFG , 2017/2018
  • The optimized gender? Sociological explorations for (re) coding the gender difference using the example of cosmetic surgery. Duration: 2013–2015, funded by the DFG
  • TARGET - Transatlantic Research on Gender Equity Training; with Susanne Baer , Myra Marx-Ferree, Kathrin Zippel , duration 2010–2013, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Member of the DFG network “Bodies in Cultural Studies” 2007–2010

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Specialized Society Gender Studies / Gender Studies Association : Previous board members: Board member 2012–2014. In: fg-gender.de. 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020.
  2. ^ German Youth Institute (DJI): 1963–2013: 50 years of the German Youth Institute. ( Memento of August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 28, 2020.
    Official website.
  3. ^ Paula-Irene Villa: The body as a cultural staging and status symbol. Federal Agency for Civic Education , April 23, 2007, accessed on March 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Villa Braslavsky, Paula-Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Villa, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile